Re: BT Internet / SMTP

"Viking Mail" <vikingmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:S%U2g.48697$8o.15971@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

Hi all,

Does anyone know if BT Internet and / or BT broadband prevents
their dialled-in users from accessing a thrid party SMTP server
such as might be provided with a web hosting account?

I've set up web hosting for a guy who's currently on BT dialup,
but he can't send mail via the web host's SMTP server. The
settings look right in his Outlook Expres, and, indeed, OE
claims to have connected to the server, but then sits there
doing nothing (not even username / password) until the
connection times out. Initially, I put it down to temporary
server problems, but, while I'm able to send mail through it
from my machine (on NTL), he still can't get any further after 3
days of trying.

I know that Freeserve / Wanadoo insist that outgoing mail must
go through their SMTP server and wondered if BT had gone the
same foolish way? If so, does it also affect BT Broadband (can't
see how it would, given that they didn't provide any POP / SMTP
of their own last time I checked, but hey, this is BT we're
taling about). I know the guy's going to move over to broadband,
and it would help to know in advance whether he can talk to his
SMTP server throught it!

TIA,

Rob.



AIUI the issue is the other way round: an SMTP server will block
email sending attempts if you are not authenticated on the same
network as the server. e.g. If I am using a BrandX connection to
the Internet and try to send email via BrandY's SMTP server, the
latter disallows the send.


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